Biography:

Dan Vimont joined the faculty at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Center for Climatic Research at UW-Madison in July 2003 after a short appointment as a research associate through the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and through JISAO at the University of Washington.

Dr. Vimont's scholarly work currently focuses on climate variability involving coupled processes in the atmosphere and ocean. His recent projects include:

The role of midlatitude atmospheric variability in forcing tropical climate through coupled interactions in the subtropics and tropics (e.g., the "seasonal footprinting mechanism")

Downscaling precipitation over Indonesia under present and future climate scenarios

Meridional modes in the tropical Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans

Climate variability and hurricane activity

Modeling ENSO impacts in a warmer world

Pacific interannual and decadal variability in models and observations

Statistical analysis of climate variability, with emphasis on integrating statistics and physical processes